The Polaris Music Prize Spotify Encyclopedia

('Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! cover!)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! won the Polaris Music Prize 2013, "an annual award given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales or record label". Their statement of appreciation was not so appreciating. Anyway, in this month-long wait for the new album of another well-known (but not very spotify-friendly) Canadian band, I decided to update some previous playlists I made about the Polaris Prize. And I added two new ones!

So:

playlist #1(the new one): all winning albums from 2006 to 2013.
playlist #2 (the other new one): all shortlisted 2013 albums, just to catch the Canadian sound of the year

playlist #3 (updated): mammoth with all shortlisted albums from 2006 to 2013

playlist #4 (updated): mammoth lite, with three songs each shortlisted album from 2006 to 2013

Enjoy!

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE WINNERS (2006-2013)

(two albums missing: Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs)

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED ALBUMS

(all 10 albums, bingo!)

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED ALBUMS (2006-2013)

(full albums / 927 songs)

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED ALBUMS (2006-2013)

(3-tracks each album / 237 songs)

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The Guardian's The best albums of 2013 (so far)

Looking for a musical recap of the first six months of 2013?

From The Guardian:

We asked readers to nominate their favourite albums of the first half of the year. Here are the results:

10. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
9. Kanye West - Yeezus
8. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
7. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
6. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
5. Everything Everything - Arc
4. Queens of the Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork
3. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2. Suede - Bloodsports
1. David Bowie - The Next Day

Do you agree? Or do you think that the best David Bowie 2013 album is ...Like Clockwork?

On The Guardian website, you can find reviews and users' comments. On this playlist, you can listen to all the albums (except Boards of Canada's Tomorrow's Harvest, that - in Italy - is not available on Spotify yet).
Enjoy!

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